“Mickey Mouse (short for Michell Mouse is a cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company. Mickey Mouse was created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks and voiced by Walt Disney. The Walt Disney Company celebrates his birth as November 18, 1928 upon the release of Steamboat Willie, although Mickey had already appeared six months earlier in Plane Crazy (Steamboat Willie being the first Mickey Mouse Cartoon with sound). The anthropomorphic mouse has evolved from being simply a character in animated cartoons and comic strips to become one of the most recognizable symbols in the world. Mickey is currently the main character in the Disney Channel’s Playhouse Disney series “Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.” Mickey is the leader of The Mickey Mouse Club.”

A more detailed account of what is supposedly happening in these photographs comes to us via the Weekly World News, a tabloid newspaper renowned for such earth-shattering scoops as “Ape Gives Birth to Human Baby” and “JFK Was Shot to Prevent Him From Revealing Truth About UFOs.” According to an article in the March 28, 2001 issue, the victim was actually Pakistani tourist Amjar Bukhari, who was swallowed by a boa constrictor and spent “12 to 15 horrifying minutes trapped in the serpent’s belly before workers at Nairobi National Park [Kenya] sliced open the enormous snake and rescued him.”

“We sliced open the snake’s belly and a pair of human legs tumbled out,” one of the rescuers is quoted as saying. “At first we thought the man was dead — then I saw his foot twitch and we quickly hauled him out.” The story says Bukhari survived, believe it or not, with a couple of fractured ribs and “minor burns from the snake’s stomach acid.”

Healthy foods, like reality show stars, tend to be both high-maintenance and tasteless. As lazy and spoiled people, we try to find any shortcuts we can to eating healthy without having to prepare fresh food or eat tofu.

Unfortunately, as we all learned from watching children’s cartoons, taking shortcuts can lead to a hilarious comedy of errors. And diabetes.

Just about everyone knows that the legal drinking age throughout the United States is 21. But according to the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, almost 80% of high school students have tried alcohol.

Deciding whether to drink is a personal decision that we each eventually have to make. This article provides some information on alcohol, including how it affects your body, so you can make an educated choice.